Thanks, @catloverplayer ! I'll get that added after I do a run-through for other comments. I ran across one while looking for other things this morning.
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I'll bring here some smaller details I've noticed in the livestream.
First, when your sim has extra traits, then the trait panel in CAS will show a smaller trait slot with three dots near the second and third traits.
Now, I'll bring the list of Sim Characteristics preferences under spoilers:
Ambitionless Sims
Argumentative Sims
Cerebral Sims
Egotistical Sims
Emotional Decision-Makers
Family-Motivated Sims
Funny Sims
Hard-Working Sims
High Energy Sims
Homebody Sims
Idealist Sims
Nature Enthusiasts
Optimistic Sims
Pessimistic Sims
Pet Enthusiasts
Rascals
Romance Enthusiasts (Teens and up)
Spirited Sims
This preference takes into account three things: traits, skills, and lifestyles from Snowy Escape.
And here's Conversation Topics preferences under spoilers:
Affection
Arguments
Complaints
Compliments
Deception
Deep Thoughts
Discussing Hobbies
Discussing Interests
Flirtation (Teens and up)
Gossip
Jokes
Malicious Interactions
Physical Intimacy (Teens and up)
Potty Humor
Pranks
Silly Behavious
Small Talk
Stories
Descriptions for each new child aspirations:
Playtime Captain
This Sim loves to seek out active play--with friends!
Creative Genius
This Sim wants to build their creative and mental skills to inspire innovation and play!
Slumber Party Animal
This Sim wants to be the life of the party--in a uniquely creative way!
Mind and Body
This Sim wants to master both their mind and body!
In addition, midlife crisis may make your sim's likes and dislikes change on their own without your input. You'll get a notification when that happens.
Pack cheats I've noticed (which I don't know what will be in game):
Infant Quirks (that one will definitely be in game)
Milestones: Get Tooth Fairy Certificate
Milestones: Get School Drawings
Milestones: Get Marriage Certificate
Milestones: Get Baby Keepsake
List of infant quirks:
Early Riser
Feeding Tinkler
Free-Air Tinkler
Frequently Hiccups
Frequently Sneezes
Gassy
Good Appetite
Happy Spitter
Hates Wakeup Time
Loves Being Held
More unrevealed...
Infant quirks can conflict, as seen when the developers weren't able to select Early Riser, possibly because the infant already had Hates Wakeup Time.
List of "Ponder the Meaning of Family" interactions:
Family Isn't Always About Getting Along
Family Isn't Everything
Family Means Being Together
Family Means Doting & Adoration
Family Means Having Fun Together
Family Means High Expectations
Family Means Unconditional Support
Nobody Knows What Family Means
New Social Event descriptions and rewards:
Slumber Party
Gather your pals together to stay up late, tell stories, and eat snacks. Don't fall asleep first or you may get pranked!
Challenge Rewards:Silver Rewards include an adorable new Sleeping Bad for Toddlers and Gold rewards include one for everyone else!
Baby Shower
Gather friends and family to celebrate the expansion of your household. Whether you're pregnant or adopting, bringing a new family member into your home is a major life moment worthy of some commotion!
Challenge Rewards: Gold Level rewards include a new bassinet.
Family Reunion
Get the whole fam back together! With a guest list consisting of both the family tree and close family friends, take this time to talk about family, take photos, or share a meal with those closest to you. Successful Family Reunions reward you with various photo collage frames to commemorate the occasion.
Challenge Rewards: Gold, Silver, and Bronze level events award new photo collage frames to hang on the wall. Perfect for your Sim's family photos!
List of movies and their genres:
A Room with No Door (Horror)
All My Friends are Fred (Comedy)
Captain Sigma: Olympus Landing (Action)
Critters from the Mauven Forest: the Last Llama Together (Children/Family)
Packs & Prejudice (Romance)
Tournament of Honor (Drama)
I really like how some of them reference the acting gigs in Get Famous while some are book adaptation (Packs & Prejudice).
And finally, puzzle choices:
Animals...
Best Friends Fur Ever
Feathered Friends
Fitness Goats
Grassland Sheep
Meadow Mare
Fantasy
Landscapes
Sci-Fi
Custom Puzzle from Reference
Non-custom puzzles come in 50, 100, 250, and 500 pieces.
I'm rewatching the stream, and I see a lot of questions about if someone who is coming over for a Temporary Stay needs a bed. You can certainly assign one to them, but they'll actually whip out a sleeping bag if you don't have one.
You can schedule any other event while a Stay Over (planned by you or NPC-initiated!) is running! The temp stay will continue running in the background.
You can assign them beds, you can form a group with them, you can take them to other lots! You can ask them to relax or help out! You just can't control them since they're in a different household.
For Family Reunions, the invite list isn't restricted to strictly members of the family tree. Found family, in-laws, and family friends can be invited too
The toddlers normally have enough and will eventually throw a tantrum to have someone take them out. It play sooo nicely. I also really appreciated this bug fix. I use high chairs all the time now.
Lots actually plays into how infants feel about exploring food (Basegame) & finger foods (Growing Together). For example: Infants with the Picky Eater Quirk are less likely to like foods, in general. Same with Sensitive Infants. However, Sunny infants will normally Like or Love.
The designer for Toddler Quirks did some extra work around Occults and Toddler Quirks. You’re more like to get these quirks if you’re the corresponding occult:
Merfolk - Obsessed with Water
Werewolf - Destructive
Vampire - Aggressive
Spellcaster - Loves Books
We considered them but didn’t feel like any of the quirks felt so specifically alien-aligned that we wanted to support them in the same way we did other occults.
Fun note about workplace rivals: If you try to sabotage them, you'll get unique messages themed after every possible career. I wrote a decent chunk of them
Fun note: there are 2 types of suitcases. The ones NPCs bring for Temp Stays are temporary, and should be taken once the stay ends. However, since we knew you all would want to build with them, there are 2 new suitcases (one for children!) available in build/buy!
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List of "Ponder the Meaning of Family" interactions:
Family Isn't Always About Getting Along
Family Isn't Everything
Family Means Being Together
Family Means Doting & Adoration
Family Means Having Fun Together
Family Means High Expectations
Family Means Unconditional Support
Nobody Knows What Family Means
From this interaction, it is clear that there are at least 8 family dynamics in the game.
Here's all the dynamics I have gathered from the livestream and promotional materials:
Unset (in CAS, it shows as Family Dynamic)
Distant (they spend time apart unless made to interact to each other, become tense near each other)
Jokesters (constantly do funny interactions together often and try to make each other laugh)
Difficult
Close
Supportive
Strict (older sims will ask younger sims to do more and younger sims will rebel less)
Permissive (older sims tend to spoil younger sim, shower them with love, and let them get away more often)
While livestream did show that Family Means Doting & Adoration leads to Permissive dynamic, others are unknown.
And I really forgot to mention but it really was irking me during the livestream: the emotion pose for Very Playful gets changed. While they still keep their hands up, their head now faces up and they have no cross-eyes.
And I really forgot to mention but it really was irking me during the livestream: the emotion pose for Very Playful gets changed. While they still keep their hands up, their head now faces up and they have no cross-eyes.
I noticed it too. Im looking forward to the change, the current Very playful UI pose is creepy lmao
They do crawl in Basegame. Growing Together has them sort of ramp up to all that they can do in Basegame as they unlock Milestones. We wanted there to be -plenty- to do with Infants if you just have Basegame.
All Infants/Toddlers have them when they grow into that age. It’s more-so a matter of discovering the quirks they already have. It’ll sometimes happen naturally OR through specific interactions with them, and sometimes might require them to have reached certain milestones.
As an example: You might not discover your infant Likes Sounds unless you give them the tools to play with sounds - the new BG sensory toys, radio, etc. Or that your toddler Hates being Held until you pick them up to take them somewhere.
But an infant who is a Free Air Tinkler is probably going to use the bathroom while you’re changing them, and a Toddler who is Aggressive will probably act out on their own. It’s fun discovering them. The cheat is also available if you want to set your own for story.
You can feed these foods to infants m because they are meant for infants, but I have had my toddler walk up and swipe the finger foods from my infant and eat it. 😭 Some toddlers are wild.
I don’t know if there are Milestones specifically from Parenthood or not, but there are a lot from other expansions. I do know we did a lot of cross-pack compatibility work with various features in connection with Parenthood.
DamionFandom asked if Milestones are like Memories:
Personally, I think they are but amped up. Not only do they track special moments, but for infants they unlock interactions, they sometimes give physical rewards like a marriage certificate, and (for some) your sims remember where things happened and it’ll affect their mood.
The Splash Pads are really fun to design on your own home lots too. You have the three emitters, plus a variety of different pads in various colors.
You even have your own at-home Whalebert—who can also be placed in fountains!
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Yeah, this is just a normal fence and gate in a cute theme, so it'd work as a puppy pen. There is an interaction on all doors/gates now to "Apply Babyproofing" and I don't THINK that applies to puppies, but you can still lock for pets.
Toddlers can definitely use the changing table, but they have to have a stinky diaper. Because they normally use the potty or are potty trained that's less likely to happen, but when it does change them on a table!
Visitors will target different rooms on different days, so one day might be gym/music room day and another art/puzzle day. Also, there's a wide variety of age groups there, so it's great for making friends.
Bassinets are just for newborns, & they are restricted to them - though we updated that experience to flow better. Infants use cribs which are bigger, & they most certainly aren’t restricted. We have a bunch of new cribs coming to Basegame for free with the patch!
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Most of these (splash pads, emitters, Whalebert) are found under outdoor activities. Whalebert is also a Fountain Decoration. The leaves and flowers are found in Sculptures in the Outdoors category. No cheats needed to access them at all!
Married Sims now get a marriage certificate in Growing Together, which you can then customize from these three designs in a variety of frames!
Sims can request additional copies via the phone or computer!
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From @catloverplayer's post - This was mentioned in the livestream (so it's in the OP posts) but this is an image of two children playing together in the Treehouse: SimGuruNova tweet:
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First, when your sim has extra traits, then the trait panel in CAS will show a smaller trait slot with three dots near the second and third traits.
Now, I'll bring the list of Sim Characteristics preferences under spoilers:
And here's Conversation Topics preferences under spoilers:
Descriptions for each new child aspirations:
In addition, midlife crisis may make your sim's likes and dislikes change on their own without your input. You'll get a notification when that happens.
Pack cheats I've noticed (which I don't know what will be in game):
List of infant quirks:
List of "Ponder the Meaning of Family" interactions:
New Social Event descriptions and rewards:
List of movies and their genres:
And finally, puzzle choices:
From Twitter:
The World
Designer Matthew Fahey provides this lot size map on Twitter:
There isn't a bar in the world.
- Matthew Fahey tweet:
There aren't apartments in the world - SimGuruFrost tweet:
Splash Pads - SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Stay Overs - SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Family Reunions - SimGuruNova tweet:
Feeding and High Chairs
The fix to high chair behaviour is part of the base game patch. - SimGuruNinja tweet:
Fun Fact: Infants, in general, are super likely to Dislike Smashed Lemon and Love Ice Cream.[/quote]
- SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Toddler Quirks - SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Milestones - SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Workplace Rivalries - SimGuruNova tweet:
Likes/Dislikes - SimGuruNinja tweet:
CAS
Toddler CC will not work on Infants - SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Suitcases - SimGuruNova tweet:
Treehouses - SimGuruNova tweet:
And for fun: - SimGuruConor tweet:
From this interaction, it is clear that there are at least 8 family dynamics in the game.
Here's all the dynamics I have gathered from the livestream and promotional materials:
- Unset (in CAS, it shows as Family Dynamic)
- Distant (they spend time apart unless made to interact to each other, become tense near each other)
- Jokesters (constantly do funny interactions together often and try to make each other laugh)
- Difficult
- Close
- Supportive
- Strict (older sims will ask younger sims to do more and younger sims will rebel less)
- Permissive (older sims tend to spoil younger sim, shower them with love, and let them get away more often)
While livestream did show that Family Means Doting & Adoration leads to Permissive dynamic, others are unknown.And I really forgot to mention but it really was irking me during the livestream: the emotion pose for Very Playful gets changed. While they still keep their hands up, their head now faces up and they have no cross-eyes.
I noticed it too. Im looking forward to the change, the current Very playful UI pose is creepy lmao
Baby shower event rewards a new crib
This is a Slumber Party Reward object, "an animal-themed sleeping bag for toddlers!"
- SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Infants
Are they playable? - SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Quirks - SimGuruMorgan tweet thread:
The World
How are worlds named? Check this thread from GrimSuruDoi on Twitter:
Build/Buy SimGuruNinja tweet:
Re. the playpen fences: - SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Pie Menu Update - SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Newborns - SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Infant Feeding - SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Milestones - SimGuruMorgan tweet:
DamionFandom asked if Milestones are like Memories: - SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Splash Pads - SimGuruMorgan tweet:
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/star-trek-original-series-fan-fiction-trilogy/
... as puppy pen? - SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Changing table - SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Recreation Center
SimguruMorgan thread with all the Rec Center objects:
Bassinets and Cribs - SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Sleeping bags - SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Teeth
Children can lose multiple teeth but at different times:
SimGuruNinja tweet:
Child Aspirations SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Build/Buy
A look at some of the new furniture:
SimGuruNova thread(s?):
This is Whalebert: SimGuruNinja tweet:
SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Marriage Certificates SimGuruDoi tweet:
Splash Pads
Can Cats use it? SimGuruMorgan tweet:
Aliens
An Alien Infant:
Early Access embargo ends Monday, March 13, at 10 a.m. PST
new hug animation with Children:
- SimGuruNinja tweet:
Change Table
Do you have to have a change table for Toddlers, and if so, do you have to use it? No:
- SimGuruNova tweet: